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Anti-pollution standards not high enough to save fish

- VANCOUVER (CP) — wise branch fish and branch says that even the toughest

. existing pollution stan- ‘dards for the mining in: dustry are strong enough ‘ to prevent fish from being

The branch also wants cumping of mine tailings or salt water to

i ina brief prepated a brie prepared the branch

tation next Neck at

ublic inquiry into

ool ution control ob- tives ees as

permitted in water under existing Pollution Control Branch level ob- jectives, fhe highest

standard, “are harmful

to A atic ¢ organi.

branch says at for for ammonia, the. level A objective is no more than concentration of only .0 is lethal for trout fry.. It gives 18 other similar examples for substances ranging from mercury to

poll recommends that the

oebsaitiven® the lowéat

malting dustrl BEd LOR. O¥OF ting industries mi polt * y

lumbia. ie inquiry opens Tuesday in Victoria and M4 briefs will

Pesuaan control ob- jectives for all B.C. in- “dustries are reviewed 4 . The last re-

ing in-

“MORE STRINGENT

: The wildlife branch brief asks that standards be made ‘more stringent because most of the ! Taineral concentrations

be be

should be a concentration harmf “lower than the lowest concentration known to toxic _ 2 aquatic 8. ? one wildlife branch asks that' mine ta

in - fuure discharged ' land

because “the che, present

cy of discharge of fa 3 to salt water -is unacceptable.” DUMBING CHEAPER It says developers usually find it cheaper to dump their tailings into

parts a million but a i

water so that land alternatives are not pursued vigorously.

“JE disposal to the aquatic environment is unavoldable, ‘rates of

tion should be suf- ficlen ently low that there is no discernible cha receiving water ty,"

t says.

The branch says there is evidence in Canada to show that mines

under existing

ndar S may cause

‘gublethal effects on aquatic ecosystems”’ even though direct fis kills cannot cannot’ be ‘proved.

‘Tt says ‘there are“many gubstanices fie ee taly

that are not Covered by

existing Standards but Y nould be

The brief says that abandoned mines cause Water pollution, photing

ge tailing 5 a Princeton, em which are ‘a constant source of wilt into the Similkamean River,” and recommends that the board find a way to solve the problem. TOUGHER FOR LARGE

The branch says air pollution standa

-Sun Life Co. Answers -P.Q. Finance Minister

; MONTREAL (CP) — - Sun Life Assurance Co. of

‘Canada has denied it”

‘invested a. sum of $400 ‘million collected in : Quebec outside of the

we a are not: ‘holding

‘outside the rovince ny such cum at coul related t ae eybolders;” ” president omes Galt said. in a statement released Follywing Sun ‘Life’s announcement | Fri

that it would move head office.. operations to

Toronto from Montreal, .

Finance Minister — Jacques Parizeau

charged the company had invested 41 cents of every dollar collected in Quebec | outside the proviace,

The minister said he would consider legislation to force Sun

Lite to invest $400 million

the province. (puebecsne hold about $1 billion worth of life in surance policies with the company.

Parizeau seems

Sun Life last year reported worldwide premiums of $617 million iad worldwide payments oticyholders of 480

aT " ahould be clear from this that asset growth should not he related to premiums collected,” he said.

“Sun Life has. always a invested very , stantially in the province

to be comparing assets to. of Quebec

premiums collected, but

day of course allowance must

be made for the payment of benefits to icyhol-

dere and expenses,” Galt”

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“CREDITON, England . (AP) — Two ‘\e-year-old

British schoolboys have

designed an. electric trouser suit to keep old people warm.

’ Paut “Longthorpe

the same sch

Devon ‘County town, sald ey got the idea when an

cle y local woman died

othermia—low body te

emporature—a that often af- flicts the old.

‘gontrolled by a

It coaté about two cents a day to run, they said. The power supply is

tran-

sformer and an

automatic - switch q. operates when the body

Peter Comont, pla at temperature rises or fall

beyond a certain fgttorpe bald,” "The

safety. ' “The advants

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2 of the

sui that heat is con- f cemmmmed . da

where Jt is. most wanted,"

Using the suit restricts~

& person’s movements, |_

but the inventors believe

ft is practical ‘because wire relatively ‘immobile pe _-tods are when

switch can alsocut out for

. “In September, 1877, our. Quebec investments. amounted to about $680 million. This was an increase of $58 million during the first . nine months of 1977.”"

Hotsuit

sus oa to nye.

boys sald they me about $11 to make the suit, Ayre hes been - worn. and tested b old person. ’ They also aaid General” Bloctic Co, is vockiag, at

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The most srimnitive modern flowers are members of the buttercup order.

‘discharge,’

large’ operations should be more stringent than for small companies. The Wildlife Federation rif backs w

- the branch in its propos

that tailing waste’ solids should no longer be dumped into water.

The federation also wants the board to take

‘effluent samples before

the wastes are diluted by water.

’ “Before any. set of

standards is established F we feel there should be.a | commitment from. the ©

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Now docrways are to have an art

established, they must be —_

The brief . from the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear ibility, Vancouver c ey ig

concerned sole mney with tire weer, be sere replacement

uranium

complains “that existing sect wiiceome with yas cu, tions for this in- the Robber Menufectures

dustry fait to protect the Assatietion, Tees of different

environment, the public, .

the water or the miner.

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